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Hardware Recommendations for NAS

I am taking on a project to building a NAS/Media server using CENTOS 5.4. I've only ran Linux boxes as VM's and it will be my first install on real hardware. I'm trying to compile a list of parts that will give me the least amount of problems and tweaking when installing CENTOS 5.4.

I'd like to keep it small. low power and low cost while still providing a fairly seemless install. I've started researching some motherboards, mostly mini-ITX and some micro-ATX. I'd like room for 2 Gigabit nic cards, room for at least 2 SATA HD's for configuring software RAID 1, decent video out.

Well, both Atom dual cores and the Via Nano boards are in your segment. The main difference would be that some Via boards have dual ethernet onboard; I don't remember seeing an Atom board with that so far.
Both are well supported, so even an older (cough, enterprise) distro like CentOS should pose no trouble.

Well, both Atom dual cores and the Via Nano boards are in your segment. The main difference would be that some Via boards have dual ethernet onboard; I don't remember seeing an Atom board with that so far.
Both are well supported, so even an older (cough, enterprise) distro like CentOS should pose no trouble.

Gigabyte GA-6KIEH-RH - Unreal set of features but can't find anything regarding RHEL/CENTOS

BTW - the reason I have to use CENTOS is because I need to become more familiar with the OS anyway because in a few months I have a work project is on RHEL so I have to become more familiar with this distro. I've decided to take on this home project to do so.